[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[Richard B. Gilbert]

faceman28208 at yahoo.com wrote:
> On Jan 11, 12:30 pm, "johnhreinha... at yahoo.com"
> <johnhreinha... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Jan 11, 1:05 am, David J Dachtera <djesys... at spam.comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> "faceman28... at yahoo.com" wrote:
>>> Can I go to Best Buy; pick up a 64-bit...say...HP....PC; and install a
>>> native version of VMS on it with the same degree of ease as  I could
>>> Linux?
>> Nope. No version of OpenVMS runs on an off the shelf PC.
> 
> Maybe in another 10 years someone else will ask the same question yet
> another time. It sounds like HP has consigned VMS to a slow death
> rather than treat it as an asset.
> 

That news is about thirteen years old now.  It was in 1995 that a DEC VP 
announced that VMS was a "niche" O/S and that Unix was the wave of the 
future!  The purchase of DEC by Compaq didn't change anything.  The 
purchase of Compaq by HP didn't change anything!  I doubt that the 
purchase of HP by ????? would change anything!  Those who know and love 
VMS will use it as long as they can and nobody else gives a shit!